The bottom line of virtual and dedicated servers
is that though they have a higher floor-cost than some substitutes, they let
you do a much broader range of real things with real safety and reliability.

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Run any application. Our virtual servers are complete
"Linux Computers." They have a kernel, RAM, swap, disk, and software,
all pre-installed and sitting on a public Internet IP address. You can login
as root and install any software that you wish that is available on x86/Linux.

Run safely. Our system is designed to
protect you from your neighbors and the vicissitudes of the outside world,
while giving you a redundancy plan appropriate to your needs. Unlike many
others, EasyCo places firewalls in front of your system to block unauthorized
use as part of it's "build" of all systems. If you want to run
special processes with your own direct-path IP number, you will have to
add a secondary firewall to deal with the firewalling needs of the specific
IP number. Within system firewalling is part of the virtual server install.

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A separate and secure file system. A virtual server
is totally separate copy of Linux customizable by you, with its own kernel,
file-system, processes, and RAM. When you are logged into your virtual server,
you have to look pretty hard to realize that you are not on a standard RedHat
7.3 system connected to the Internet. All standard Linux applications run
in our servers "as is."

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Program faster. Root privileges, SSH and other programming
conveniences eliminate headaches. Because our virtual server technology
lets us give you a secure environment that cannot attack/bother your neighbors,
you get full administrative access even to the extent of having your own
"root" account and green screen access via SSH to fully administer
the system. This can save you oodles of programming and management time.

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The safety of tying to other machines. If you are
doing things with dynamic data and custom applications, you are going to
need other systems to protect copies of your data, as well as some sort
of redundancy plan. We can provide all of those needs with our multiple
sites and sophisticated data-movement plans.

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The advantage of low cost single-purpose machines. We use our
virtual systems to run our general hosting business, MirroredHosting.com.
Virtual machines let us build single-purpose machines. For instance, we
have some virtuals that do nothing but DNS, others that do e-mail, and
others that merely virus- and spam-filter. The advantages of this approach
are several:

First, we can lock down a machine tighter and more securely by this means
because each is single-purpose rather than multipurpose. Second, we can
build up machines far more easily because there are no conflicts between
applications to resolve. Finally, if things go wrong, we can rebuild or
reboot virtual machines far more rapidly than we can a physical machine
-- a kernel panic on a virtual does not halt the underlying hardware.

Our machines are of low enough cost that you, also, can afford to not
put all your eggs in one basket, and can instead make setup and maintenance
easier for yourself by building single-purpose systems.

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The freedom of real estate. We deliver
a true virtual server, which means that you get (and use in your own storage
space) a full copy of Linux. Our virtual systems range in size from 2 to
32 gigabytes. Our Linux install only consumes about 1.05gb, leaving you
an immense amount of free space. Many virtual server providers plans start
you off with as little as 200 megabytes of usable space, and often become
prohibitively expensive at the storage levels we provide. Similarly, they
don't protect your data with mirroring.